Spontaneous electron emission from hot silver dimer anions: Breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation

E. K. Anderson, A. F. Schmidt-May, P. K. Najeeb +8

We report the first experimental evidence of spontaneous electron emission from a homonuclear dimer anion through direct measurements of $\rm{Ag}_2^- \rightarrow \rm{Ag}_2 + \rm{e}…